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PROOF POINTS: When women studied with women, they persisted, study finds

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Dropout rates are high at Swiss universities, where less-prepared students are typically weeded out during the first year, so women probably wouldn’t be dropping out of an introductory economics class in such high numbers here in the United States. In the end, 9 percent of the men dropped the course. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

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Their schools were crumbling and had twice been taken over by the Mississippi State Board of Education for failing to provide students with an adequate education. It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. Related: Schools in the poorest state become even poorer.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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(National) Education Politics. Not so fast , says Doug Levin : “Scant Details, Fuzzy Math in $500 Million Public-Private Computer Science Education Push.” ” Trump has, of course, proposed some $9 billion in funding cuts to the Department of Education, so this is hardly “new money.”